Child safety standards.

Boat Days prohibits child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) in every form, on every surface of the product. There is no warning, no strike system, and no appeal for it.

What is prohibited

It is forbidden to use Boat Days to:

• share, request, or link to child sexual abuse material (CSAM), or any sexualised depiction of a minor, whether real or generated
• sexualise a minor in a profile, photo, post, review, boat day, or message
• groom, solicit, or attempt to arrange contact with a minor for a sexual purpose, including by offering a spot on a boat
• extort a minor with intimate imagery, or traffic a minor for any purpose
• give an account to someone we have already removed for any of the above

Accounts that do any of this are removed permanently, along with their content, and the phone number behind them is barred from signing up again.

How to report a child safety concern

Every person, post, review and boat day in the app carries a Report action, and Child safety concern is one of the reasons you can pick. You do not need to be friends with someone, or to have been on a boat with them, to report them. Reporting a person also blocks them, so they disappear from your app immediately while we look at it.

You can also email boatdays@bycliff.io from anywhere, with or without an account. Put “child safety” in the subject line and it is routed ahead of everything else.

If a child is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services first. In the United States you can also report to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at report.cybertip.org or by calling 1-800-843-5678.

What happens after you report

Child safety reports go into a moderation queue that a person reads. They are not closed by an automated filter and they are not left to age out.

When a report is upheld we remove the content, permanently remove the account, and preserve the underlying records so they can be handed to law enforcement. We report apparent child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and we cooperate with law enforcement requests from the relevant national and regional authorities.

We do not tell a reported account who reported it. If you gave us a way to reach you, we will tell you once we have acted.

How we reduce the risk up front

Boat Days is not an anonymous product. Every account is tied to a phone number verified by a one-time passcode at sign-in, so a removed account cannot be replaced for free, and a report always points at something real.

There are no features aimed at children, no open direct messaging with strangers, and no public feed of minors. Boat days are organised inside a crew you have to be admitted to, and blocking someone removes you from each other’s app.

Our terms of service and privacy policy set out the rest of the rules for using Boat Days and what we do with your data.

Legal compliance

Boat Days complies with applicable child safety laws in the markets where it is available, including United States federal reporting obligations for apparent child sexual abuse material, and reports to the relevant national and regional authorities. These standards are published in line with Google Play’s child safety standards policy and Apple’s App Store guidelines on user-generated content.

Point of contact

For child safety matters, including questions from Google, Apple, law enforcement or a child protection authority about our CSAE prevention practices, contact boatdays@bycliff.io. Boat Days is operated by By Cliff LLC.